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OpenContacts v6.1.9.727

webfork on 6 Feb 2017

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Suggested by AlephX

Open Contacts is an address book program that allows you to manage and lookup contact information of individuals, departments and organizations, and to manage relationships between them. Along with predefined fields, you can add customized data fields grouped by sections, and also customized "actions" (developers and advanced users). You can also attach photos and files, and search through any data field in the database.

The program can selectively import/export from and to major PIM packages. Multi-user access is possible in a LAN environment using true client/server architecture.

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Category:	Productivity - PIMs (30)
Runs on:	WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to:	Application folder. It also writes the path of its working folder to the registry.
Stealth: ?	No
Unicode support:	Yes
License:	Freeware
How to extract:	Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Open Contacts.exe.
What's new?	Bug fixed: Importing CSV might result in warning about buffer size.

20 comments on OpenContacts

Emka 2011-12-26 19:54

v6.1.9.727 is available, dont know if still portable

V5.3.10

ChristophersTouch 2010-12-01 09:23

Nearly Two years later... This app is currently hosted at: http://www.fonlow.com/opencontacts/ Having tried numerous contacts and address book apps including Thunderbird, I have yet to find something versatile, portable, configurable and reliable. While it sounds promising, if this doesn't work, I'm going back to Outlook express 6! I'm currently storing my database in MS Office Excel 2003 portable which I found and I love it! I just can't get Outlook .pst files to work.

webfork 2010-04-03 07:47

Really amazing number of imports and exports. Can pull from Outlook, vCard, Mozilla, Eudora, spreadsheets, Vista, and LDIF. Unfortunately I got error messages when I tried to export to excel/csv, which is a format I really needed.

Andy 2009-01-04 14:49

The virus detected Symantec was a false alarm. Please read
this thread
http://groups.google.com/group/opencontacts/browse_thread/thread/959d73f9bf6e48b5#

Holmes 2008-12-02 01:01

Portable install file downloaded from the mirror. Symantec detects virus Infostealer.Gampass.

JWatson 2008-04-27 07:01

To DS's point. Really... what are you looking for? Remember, this is after all FREE ware. If you would like to pay developers for better "marketing" and their time in providing dummy-proof configurations, please do. As a developer, I find it appalling that people will gripe and complain about stuff they get FOR FREE. I am sure Andy works hard enough to provide this to the community and does not really need the negative remarks. Constructive critism is always good, when addressed properly.

Shinder 2008-04-14 22:32

To DS

There is a mirror link to the portable Open Contacts
http://opencontacts.googlegroups.com/web/OcPortable.zip?gda=6JE8RT8AAAC-LEaHLUlhuGF6RBOTEmX55u1Z09rGJuyqn2QvD5t5H2G1qiJ7UbTIup-M2XPURDTKC0Y8SNZTqOWHKB4wfEtT

DS 2008-03-17 11:23

the project is a joke - you cannot even download this sh*t properly - it takes forever (at ~1kB/s) and than drops the connection in the middle of download. Very poor service and marketing.

chris 2008-02-19 21:19

Is it also possible to use OpenContacts in a LAN "portably", i.e. without the need to install the firebird server?

How does the program react when it is placed, with its DB, on a network share and several users start using it?

This concerns an environment where no programs can be installed on the server by the simple user.

Cheers
Chris

Andy Wong 2008-02-14 03:50

Open Contacts was designed to be portable, while by default it is a COM server heavily rely on Windows registry. To run in pure portable mode, "DisableCOM=1" should be in the INI file "main.ini", otherwise, when the program quit, it will write the location of current working dir to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Open Contacts\WorkingDir in order for the other COM clients to launch OC properly with correct working dir last used.

When running in portable mode, Open Contacts does not CreateKey or SetValue to Windows registry. One of the users above reported that the program did write something to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Open Contacts\WorkingDir, that was because one or two distributions of the portable version did not have "DisableCOM=1" set in main.in properly by mistake.

MSVCP71.dll and MSVCR71.dll are two dll files of VC++ needed by Firebird 2.0. While the standard distribution of OC contains the files, somehow the portable version did not include. Nevertheless, the latest distribution of OC portable already included these 2 files to avoid confusion, though in most XP systems, these 2 files exist in Windows\System32.

Anyway, it is good to see that the visitors of PortableFreeware.com have eagle eyes on pure portable applications. I am the developer of Open Contacts, and I just adjust the distribution of OCPortable slightly to avoid confusion in all scenarios of portable usages.

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Alex 2007-12-14 03:38

If it needs files from the system32 directory then this indeed is not portable and not for me. No problem if additional files can be put on the USB key for it to run but IMO shouldn't really depend on the target machine setup.

Andrew Lee 2007-09-21 20:57

@hknut: MSVCP71.DLL needs to be copied to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32. If you don't like that, this proggie is not for you! :)

Crid 2007-09-21 13:10

This software is too complicated. It may have a thousand wonderful features and I'd love to try them, but (I think) the whole point of portable software is that you drop it into a folder and get on with your business. I tried two installations that failed, and it seems to have left some trash around the registry and elsewhere, exactly what we want to avoid. It's weird, because the guy seems to understand what the mission of portability is....

Kent 2007-08-27 17:26

Regarding to password protection, I had the same concern until I read the Security page of the Open Contacts. I agreed that you need to lock your front door, but not every bed rooms and toilets and drawers.

hknut 2007-07-07 22:35

Open Contacts - not really portable?
2 weeks ago I brought all my important addresses to OpenContacts, like the program a lot. It workes form USB on my home- and my work-pc. Last week I went to a customer and the program didnt start: a file MSVCP71.DLL was missing (on a XP machine, I think SP2). I found the file on the Internet, downloaded it into the OpenContacts folder - but the program didnt start. Same error. I tried to register the file, but that didnt work.
I think for a program to be portable it should be able to run on any current XP system without any other preconditions on the machine, or am I wrong?

Gary 2007-07-06 02:54

Of course there are ways for the user to add password protection, but the more sensible approach would be to put at least simple password protection on an application that likely contains sentitive information.

zamolxis 2007-07-03 05:19

Gary, perhaps you should run it from a truecrypt-ed volume

Gary 2007-05-12 05:09

The one obvious deficiency of this program, in my humble opinion, is that the user cannot password protect anyone from using it... A serious flaw for any type of address book (confidential information) in many people's opinion.

John 2007-03-08 22:07

Surath,
Apparently the computer you were using had no Email program set, while this program tried to identify which Email program you are using through checking the registry. It is very rare today that a windows machine has not email program. Surely this program should has a bit more fault tolerance to such settings on your computer.

surath 2007-03-07 01:44

Can not run the application. When I run OpenContacts V3.9.3 in XP, I found popup window error " Object: TTntButton--EJclRegistryErro-Unable to open key "Software\Clients\Mail" and access value"" "

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